I don't do vista. Ever. And yet I am expected to fix my wife's laptop when she breaks it.

She fiercely resists any changes to how and what she does (I even have to burn discs and transfer data to a flash drive off vista's convoluted file manager for her so I can print). It's a futile battle every time I suggest a switch to a decent OS.

Problem is this:

Her taskbar has moved to the right hand side of the screen. She wants it back. It's not locked and can be resized. Every forum says drag and drop it. That's not working. Any ideas.

Have you right clicked on a blank area choose Properties should be an option to place the task bar left/right/top/bottom at least the option is there for Win 7 I have mine on the left side great for a wide screen.

heiowge wrote:It's not locked and can be resized. Every forum says drag and drop it. That's not working.

Unlocking the taskbar and dragging and dropping it works for me in Vista. You say it's on the right. There's often a sidebar/google gadgets/widgets thingy on the right. Is that getting in the way of your drag and drop? Have you tried closing the sidebar in order to get to the taskbar?

heiowge wrote:My wife has broke vista again

Correction: your wife hasn't broken Vista. The worst she did was a couple of injudicious mouse gestures. Microsoft broke Vista.

Edit. Just wanted to add: isn't it odd that while most of the main Linux distros have been working for the last couple of years on getting a seamless bootup transition from grub to usplash/plymouth/whatever to the xserver, that Microsoft is going the other way? At least with XP you had some sort of blue splash screen during bootup. Not pretty, but it was reassuring that something was going on. But with Vista (and W7) you get an entirely blank and black screen for a minute or so before the login screen appears. Seems retrograde to me.